The Public Woman
1984-06-16 | 113 minutes
Plot Summary
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Cast
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Valérie KapriskyEthel
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Francis HusterLucas Kessling
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Lambert WilsonMilan Mliska
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Patrick BauchauEthel's Father
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Gisèle PascalGertrude
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Roger DumasAndré
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Jean-Paul FarréPierre
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Olivier Achard1st Assistant Director
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Yveline AilhaudRachel
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Michel AlbertiniMaurice
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Marianne BaslerYoung Anarchist
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Nathalie BécueDresser
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Lucas BelvauxFrançois
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René BériardBishop Shlapas
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